Ridley's Family Markets is a family-owned chain of grocery stores based in Jerome, Idaho, United States (but incorporated in Wyoming), with multiple locations around the Intermountain West. Description Although the company was founded in 1984 in Payson, Utah, it subsequently moved its headquarters to Boise, Idaho, and then Jerome. As of 2017, Ridley's operates 31 supermarkets in Idaho, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and Wyoming, as well as two stand alone pharmacies. It also has a retail support center in Twin Falls, Idaho. In 2015, it was ranked as the 21st largest private company in Idaho. As of August 2017, the company's leadership was Donald Mark Ridley (President), Jerry Lee Ridley (Director), and Constance Fay Ridley (Secretary). History In 1984, Jerry and Connie Ridley opened an grocery store in Payson, Utah. Ridley's first operated as an IGA franchise called Ridley's IGA Foodliner. In 1986, the couple sold the Payson store and began a partnership to build and operate a Food 4 Less store in Provo, Utah. In 1988, after grocery retailer Farmer Jack closed their stores in Idaho and Utah, the Ridleys decided to sell their share of the Food 4 Less store to acquire three former Farmer Jack stores in Idaho. Ridley's Food Corporation was incorporated that same year as a privately held company with its headquarters in Boise, Idaho. Throughout the 1990s, Ridley's began acquiring several grocery stores in Idaho, including two Smith's Food and Drug stores in Boise (1992) and two Sprouse-Reitz stores in Emmett and McCall (1994). Each of these four stores were eventually closed or relocated. In 2004, the first Ridley's Family Markets store in Utah was opened in the city of Tremonton. In 2007, Ridley's ranked as the 36th largest private company in Idaho. The retailer's first stores in Nevada (Ely) and Wyoming (Pinedale) opened in 2007 and 2008, respectively. As of 2008, Ridley's had 15 stores and 600 employees. Between 2008 and 2010, Ridley's acquired three Albertsons stores in Blackfoot, Idaho and Orem, Utah. Following the purchase of three pharmacies in Idaho and Nevada, Ridley's opened the first free-standing pharmacies in the company's history in 2010. In August 2011 Ridleys Family Markets. Inc. was incorporated in Wyoming. On December 20, 2014, it was announced that Ridley's would be buying four grocery stores in Wyoming: two Safeway stores in Casper, one Safeway in Sheridan, and an Albertson's store in Laramie. The stores were being sold by